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Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: She failed to protect the integrity of that office.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: She failed Maurice McCabe and it is now abundantly clear that it is time for the Tánaiste to go.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Bluff and bluster.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste failed to act.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have now spent over a week discussing this email, the e-mail which outlined the very malicious strategy designed by former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan and her legal team to destroy the reputation and the life of Sergeant Maurice McCabe. It seems to me that there was a conspiracy to ruin this honourable man and that members of An Garda Síochána and the...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The email in question was sent to an official at the Department of Justice and Equality from somebody within An Garda Síochána. That email was then sent on to the Tánaiste. It strikes me as very strange that this email and the telephone conversation happened at all. It is very strange that the people concerned would be sharing information on a legal strategy and then sharing...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Why did she sit idly by as the plan to discredit Sergeant McCabe unfolded? She said that she could not remember the email but I do not accept that because the political controversy surrounding Maurice McCabe had already led to the resignation of a Minister for Justice and Equality and a Garda Commissioner. It centred on allegations against Sergeant McCabe of which the Tánaiste was...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, it was worse than that because what the Tánaiste did do was continue to express unwavering confidence in the then Garda Commissioner O'Sullivan after the fact. She also continued to parrot this line that the whistleblower would enjoy protection from the Government. It was initially claimed by An Taoiseach, presumably after discussions with her, that the Tánaiste had no...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It goes to the heart of her integrity and that of her Government and it will not stand. Can the Tánaiste afford us clarity now and can she give an account for her failures?

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I did not ask why emails were not found. I asked why the Tánaiste did not act.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste is still not giving answers. She is sticking to her script and I for one-----

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----am not taken in for a moment by the bluster and the long enunciation of a list of her virtues in office.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The fact is that when it counted, when this email arrived in her in-box and when she became aware of a malicious strategy to malign this man on the basis of charges that had been dismissed and disproved, she failed to act.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: She failed to offer, when it mattered, any protection to Maurice McCabe.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: She failed to act and to offer any meaningful protection to Maurice McCabe when it mattered.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: She had sight and knowledge of this malicious legal strategy and-----

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----for reasons that she needs to outline, she looked the other way. In fact, it was worse than that because she continued consistently to give political support and cover to the architect, or one of the architects, of that legal strategy, Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan. The Tánaiste picked her side and she certainly was not on Maurice McCabe's side.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Her fairy tales about not remembering the email or not reading it cut absolutely no ice. She failed as Minister for Justice and Equality.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach referred in some detail to the Brexit negotiations and the relationship between the Government and the government in London. He made the not unreasonable observation that he awaits a proposal from the British Government in respect of the Border issue on the island. I draw his attention to the utterly shambolic state of play in the British Government in respect of putting...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I agree. We met yesterday the British Prime Minister, Ms Theresa May. We raised with her a range of matters in respect of the current efforts to restore the political institutions. One matter in particular that we raised with her, and that I want to raise with the Taoiseach this afternoon, is the decision the British Government has taken to include a statute of limitations or a proposal...